Antenna Style Daggers, East-West Exchange, and Parallel Development
When relics of a similar shape are each uncovered from two different locations far apart from one another, they are usually considered as evidence of exchange through migration, trade, or dissemination. But in some cases, the difference in time and space are too great for them to be a result of exchange. How then should such cases be understood? How is exchange different from what is not? A good example of this would be similar patterns on pottery or antenna daggers discovered on the Korean peninsula and in Europe. Antenna daggers in particular are intimately linked to the ancient Korean kingdom of Gojoseon in terms of period and region. The following sections therefore gives an introduction to archaeological sources that suggest the possibility of Gojoseon people to have engaged in long distance trade, and feature commonalities elicited from similar natural environments and the universality of mankind.
Park Sun-mi (Research fellow, NAHF Research Institute of Korea-China Relations)